Retrial to be sought in foiled bomb plot

September 11, 2008|By Los Angeles Times

LONDON — Prosecutors said Wednesday that they would seek to retry seven Britons in an alleged Al Qaeda plot to blow up U.S.-bound flights after a trial ended this week with jurors failing to accept the central premise of the case.

All seven men will be charged again with conspiring to detonate liquid explosive devices aboard trans-Atlantic passenger planes, according to a statement by Sir Ken McDonald, the director of public prosecutions. Eight men, whose arrests in 2006 caused worldwide travel chaos and a ban on liquids in carry-on luggage, were tried in Woolwich Crown Court.